Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify project requirements
- Refer to project briefs to identify target learner characteristics and their impact on resource design
- Identify content to be incorporated, generated and managed, and how content is accessed or delivered
- Identify delivery platforms including learning management systems, and assess implications for media asset formats and content modification
- Consult with clients to clarify project requirements
- Research and select instructional design model
- Analyse content to establish learning outcomes and assessment strategies
- Research a range of instructional design models and consider their suitability to meet briefs
- Identify accessibility and technical standards that may apply for the delivery platforms
- Identify learning styles of target audience and consider how these may impact design
- Evaluate a range of interactive learning and assessment activities to meet learning needs of target learners
- In consultation with relevant personnel, select the instructional design model that best meets learning needs and project requirements
- Draft design specifications
- Use selected instructional design model to design architecture of the e-learning resource
- Design sequences and interactivity based on content and project requirements
- Develop content templates for content experts if required
- Specify media assets as required
- Specify communication and collaboration tools as required
- Specify user interface of the e-learning resource
- Specify production requirements, including appropriate testing strategies
- Produce design specifications and instructions for design and development teams to use
- Finalise design specifications
- Present design specifications and discuss with clients
- Review designs against required project outcomes and target learner needs
- Review designs against creative and technical requirements
- Adjust designs as necessary after discussions with relevant personnel
- Clarify ownership of intellectual property to comply with production and organisational requirements
- Confirm with clients their acceptance of design specifications, including deliverables, milestones and timelines